(Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol)
2007-06-10 02:31:21 · 6 answers · asked by HawaiianBrian 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What if I never voted? Or is it just referring to false idols like Sanjaya?
2007-06-10 02:35:49 · update #1
Does my not watching it make me a bad atheist?
I've seriously never seen the show.
2007-06-10 02:34:34 · answer #1 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
James is right.
The 2nd commandment is not about the word Idol, it is about You making sure that you give God the place in your life that He merits. It is about keeping your values straight.
If you are blowing off church so you can watch a football game, or go golfing you have a problem... a problem just as serious as the guy who misses his daughter's wedding because he wants to see a football game, or the Dad who always puts his job ahead of his family and winds up divorced because of it.
Think of someone who is so into drugs or booze that they loose their job and their relationship rather than give up the booze and the drugs. Think of someone who gets into an affair and looses their family and their kids over it.
Their priorites are out of wack.
So if you put anything before God in your life, be it money, sex, power, food, cars, sports, sleep, mythical gods (like Baal or Venus) or even really cheesy TV shows, etc. your priorities are out of whack.
That is what the 2nd Commandment is about.
2007-06-10 02:53:37 · answer #2 · answered by Larry R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's regulation for Christians is the spirit of the regulation, and not the letter. Christians have been with the aid of no skill a social accumulating to that previous covenant regulation. so which you start up off with a faux premise. Do actual Christians worship crosses? Do they worship idols? what's the deal which you think of of Christians are held to the ten commandments then? .
2016-11-10 00:04:00 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are more interesting things to idolize IMHO. Placing anything above God or as a rival with God is idolatry. Making statues or religious pictures is not unless one thinks that they are actually gods or "entrap" the divine or spirits. Money,pleasure,power,fame or ego can easily become idols.
2007-06-10 02:37:06 · answer #4 · answered by James O 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say it depends on why, and how you are watching it. Anything we make more important to us than God can be an idol.
2007-06-10 02:36:35 · answer #5 · answered by TJ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no lol
2007-06-10 02:34:51 · answer #6 · answered by psychic_jod 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋